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The Long Goodbye The long goodbye Guy Kortsarz March 5, 2018 1 The long goodbye, film analysis 1.1 Killing the myth of the hard boiled detective in The long goodbye Here are the words of Chandler in his essay: "The Simple Art of Murder." He writes, "But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective in this kind of story must be such a man. He is the hero; he is everything. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world." The film is based on the book "The long goodbye" by Chandler. It changes it so much that maybe an adaptation is not a proper word. In the film Marlow kills Lennox. In the book, Lennox kills Marlow. Boy is the detective of The long goodbye far from this description of Chandler. This myth is completely debunked. 1.2 A brief description of the plot The film is set in Los Angeles. Its late at night and the spoiled cat of Marlowe is hungry. Marlowe is a private investigator. In the store Marlowe fails to find the quality food that his cat is used to. Marlowe tries to cheat his cat. He buys cheap food, but puts it in an empty can of the quality food. The cat is not fooled. He sniffs once and then, as if with contempt, the cat disappears and we no longer see the cat in the movie. Philip Marlowe is visited by his close childhood friend Terry Lennox. Lennox asks an unusual favor. He wants Marlowe to drive him from Los Angeles to Tijuana, a border town near San-Diego in Mexico. Loyal Marlowe agrees. 1 When Marlowe returns, two police detectives await. He does not care for the way they talk to him and does not cooperate. They say Lennox murdered his wife, Sylvia. Sylvia was very rich. The policeman arrest Marlowe but after three days in jail, he is release without any explanation. When Mar- lowe insists the police says that Lennox committed suicide in Mexico. Hence the case is close. Marlowe does not believe them and is sure Lennox was murdered. He continues the investigate, with nobody else seeming to care. Then Marlowe is hired for a seemingly unrelated case. Eileen Wade, a platinum-blonde wife of the famous writer Roger Wade, hires him to find Wade. Roger Wade is totally over the hill. He is alcoholic that pretends to be tough. In fact he has a writers block. This character is played by Sterling Hayden, a perfect pick that reminds us of Hemingway (they look alike). Remark: If you do not think about Sterling Hayden as Hemingway, note that this old man dies in the sea. Quiet related to Hemingway dont you think? Wade is completely self-destructive. Marlowe searches him quite efficiently and when he visits a private rehab clinic, Wade is there. Marlowe has located Roger Wade. All of a sudden the two stories collide. Eileen Wades knew Lennox and Sylvia. The two pairs were friends. They leaved in the same gated community. A gangster names Marty Augustine comes to the house of Marlowe. It turns out that Lennox illegally carried money for Marty. Marty says Lennox stole the last shipment. He wants the money back. Marlowe that does not like being treated this way, just clowns around. Marlow visits Eileen wade, and while the pair is eating, Roger Wade commits suicide by entering deep into the ocean and drowning. Eileen says that Wade had an affair with Sylvia, the wife of Lennox. Eileen raises the possibility that Wade killed Sylvia . Augustine takes Marlowe against his will the the house of Augustine. He wants to mutilate him. Marlowe is saved when the money of Marty appears all of a sudden. Something like a week ago, he got a 5000 dollars bill from Terry. Who recovered the money of Marty? Marlow tries to talk to the police in Mexico. The police assures him that Lennox is dead. When he comes back, he finds out that the house of the Wades was sold and he notices that Eileen is driving somewhere. Marlowe returns to Mexico. He convinces the local authorities to tell the truth. They confess to have fabricated Terry's suicide. Lennox is in fact alive. And is still in Mexico. Marlowe finds Terry, who admits to killing his wife Sylvia. Angry Marlowe shoots Lennox that falls into a nearby pool. 2 1.3 Pathetic characters A truly modernistic neo-noir. Altman really changed the genre completely. His Philip Marlowe is nothing like we have ever seen. As I said Marlow of the past is the "I do not take shit from no on" hard boiled kind. Here Marlow is confused, disoriented, humiliated, and does not care. Saying all the time "Its OK by me". It looks like a character from the fifties that, say, slept 20 years and is in the seventies (the book takes place in the fifties). At the end Marlow tries to impose the morality of the fifties on the seventies. In fact he is the only person in the film with a conscience. Many say that the film treats Marlowe with contempt. It is not Marlowe of The big sleep. Or of Murder My Sweet done in 1944 by Edward Dmytryk. Their Marlowe was a hero. A tough man that shows integrity and cares deeply about the case. The Marlowe in The long goodbye is poor, as he has nothing but contempt for money. See how he just gives away the 5000 dollars that Terry sent him, just to find Terry. When Marty (the gangster) visits Marlow at Marlowe's home, Marty makes fun of Marlow for being poor. The fact that he is poor is reflected in his neighbors. His nearest neighbors are young girls that are constantly both naked and high. Marlowe says they probably are doing yoga, And that "Its OK by me". Since Marlow has contempt for any powerful individual, this is his opinion on Marty as well. Albeit Marty is a dangerous killer. Marlow clowns around. When they take his photo in the police station he makes faces. He paints his face black in the police station. This was an improvisation by Elliot Gould. He makes a fool of himself and pokes his nose against the window, at the police station. When Eileen tells him that she likes how he looks, he makes a face. He realizes that Wade had an affair with Sylvia and complains like a child to the police. The police tells him they knew. He was just not important enough to be told. He complain in a childish manner. Saying that Terry was murdered and that the police does not care. The police see's him as a clown that does not let the police do its job and wastes their time. The above scene with the police was a total humiliation of Marlowe. He is humiliated many times. He is badly hit by one of the goons of Marty. He hides from Marty in the bushes, and again he hides in the bushes in the clinic. He looks completely stupid when he chases Eileen when she rides a car and he is on foot. Of course he cant catch her. He shouts Mrs Wade Mrs Wade. But she ignores and humiliates him. When he goes to the store to buy food to his cat a person there makes fun of him saying he does not need a cat, he has a girl. Marlowe does not speak clearly throughout the film. 3 He mumbles to himself and most of all repeats "Its OK with Me" about everything. He says its OK with me about the high neighbors girls, about Roger Wade inviting him for drinks. About being arrested, about Mrs Wade selling her house. About everything. In addition dialogues overlap and at times we cant hear what Marlow says. Marlowe throws wisecracks all the time. But the people around him find the wisecracks not funny and goofy. He looks to them as a pathetic man. The film does not respect the old noirs as it is situated in the seventies. Therefore Marlowe is not dressed like the old Marlowe's. Clearly, nobody wore a hat in the seventies. Unlike the old Philip Marlowe in The long goodbye Marlowe always wears black with a suit and a tie. In the first scene, we see him sleeping in his cloth. The slob. His cloth look old and dirty. When he goes out in 3 in the morning to buy food for his cat, he puts on a tie. He later refuses to take of the tie when Roger Wade asks him to. The tie is an existential thing for him. In Millers Crossing the hero tries to have a hat on him, as he plays a gangster. And in gangster films the hero wore a hat. The hero of "Millers Crossing" feels that if he does not wear a hat, he does not fit the genre. Thus the hat is discussed frequently. Marlowe acts like if he does not wear a ties, or if he does not smoke, he does not fit the film. This is a parody. Ties and film noirs do not mix. Only one character in another movie reminds me of Marlow The "Dude" in "The Big Lebowski" of the Cohen brothers that is abused in the entire film. The "Dude" is a person from the 60's in another time. A lazy person.
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